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[quote=Anonymous]If your kid is a top student at an elite prep school, you don't really need Naviance. It's not going to provide any useful information if your kid is trying to get into a top tier school. As others have pointed out, legacy and other hooks will play a major part in individual admission decisions at the Ivies.

First question is whether DC took the most rigorous courses available at the school. If not, lower your expectations a notch. It's also going to be pretty obvious whether your kid's scores and GPA are in the range of the Ivies or not.  But remember that they are not determinative (a reason why Naviance is pretty useless for top schools) and plenty of students with perfect SATs and GPAs are rejected every year and most admits do not have perfect numbers. Then ask what the teacher recommendations are going to be. Will they say your child is one of the best students in the class? If not, lower your expectations. And, in the interview, does your kid have a compelling reason to want to go to that particular school? They are all concerned about yield and a good candidate may likely get rejected because the interviewer didn't think the kid would really go to the school. Finally, if your answers are all yes, flip a coin because there is still a lot of randomness among the pool of serious candidates. [/quote]

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